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The school district had to add school amount district of hadmoney to addto aThe significant aitssignificant amount of money to snow removal budget this year its snow removal budget this year when it passed its final budget at this when its final budget this week’sit passed public meeting, whichatcame week’s public meeting, which came to a surprise to exactly nobody in tothea room. surprise to exactly nobody in the“We room. have exceeded the snow clear“Webudget have exceeded snow ing by a longthe shot thisclearyear,” ing budget by a long shot thisPatrick year,” secretary-treasurer Kevin secretary-treasurer Kevin Patrick told the board in presenting the told boardforin approval, presentingwhich the finalthe budget final budget for approval,laughter which garnered understanding garnered understanding laughter from the board after the massive from after the dumpthe of board snow earlier thismassive month. dump of snow earlier this month. “So what was typically a rarely-used “So what was typically a rarely-used token $5,000 in the budget is now token $5,000 the budget now $100,000 thisinyear. We areistrying $100,000 this year. We are trying to make sure there are supports in toplace maketosure supports dealthere with are what is sureinto place to deal with what is surehope to be an increased expense. We be an increased $100,000 will beexpense. enough.” We hope $100,000 will bethat enough. ” Thankfully, additional cost Thankfully, that additional cost can be absorbed thanks to addican befunding absorbed thanks tosources additional from various tional funding from various sources this year – most notably a sudden, this year – most a sudden, unexpected spikenotably in enrolment (See unexpected spikewith in enrolment page 5) – along savings in (See varipage 5) – along with savings in various areas. ous areas.
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